“My son and I have been involved in a shooting, and I need some advice right away,” McMichael said in a voicemail left on District Attorney Jackie Johnson’s cellphone.

A video of the killing would ultimately lead to charges against McMichael, his adult son Travis McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan. All three white men, who used pickup trucks and guns to try to corral the 25-year-old Black man, are now serving life sentences for murder and federal hate crimes.

But all three men avoided arrest for more than two months as Greg McMichael and Johnson kept in touch by phone, court records show.

Nearly five years later, Johnson is going to trial on charges that she used her office to interfere with police investigating Arbery’s killing. Jury selection is scheduled to start Tuesday in Brunswick, a port city 70 miles (112 kilometers) south of Savannah.